How Did Colonial Conditions Influence The Role Of The Labour Force?

During the formation of the British colonies to the birth of an independent nation, the colonies grew in population size, economic wealth, and land expansion. The labor force, mostly consisting of white indenture servants and black slaves, was small in size and were high in demand. The conditions the British Colonial workforce endured were impacted by the following three factors: new founded political laws that dictated the terms of the workforce, a strong economy depended on intense labor, and societal beliefs of this era. The laws that were put in place by the political government play a part in the injustice that slaves and indentured servant endured during colonial times. During the seventeenth century, especially in Virginia, only a handful
Throughout the 1660s, twenty African slaves turned into thousands of black slaves, specifically, about 9, 500,000 were brought to Americas for plantation slavery. Mercado states that the act towards these slaves were morally wrong. The slave trade made people selfish and made neighbors turn against one another such as the Portuguese and the Spaniards, having to pay more for the slaves, go out and hunt for these prisoners as if they were preys (Mercado, A Critique of the Slave Trade, 1). This shows that negroes are much needed for labors that people are fighting and killing one another for these human beings, thus, not realizing that what they are doing is inhumane. Individuals, such as Mercado, were against the mistreatment of slaves because they believe it corrupted society. A good portion of society were against slavery because it interfered with their morals. Some people felt slavery interfered with the American Dream. People have his or her own way of interpreting the American Dream. One might consider of it as being free where each person of different races can live together as a whole and not be criticized or discriminated for his or her beliefs or ethnicity (Amadeo, 2016). One might also think like Benjamin Franklin. Franklin states that living in America is like living the “American Dream” where dreams are possible and never ending if one puts his or her mind to it. Thus said, numerous spacing of land was available in America at that time that men were able to save up real fast to purchase a few acres or so. He would then be able to make profit from commercial agriculture by growing cash crops or even save that piece of land for his children when he or she grows up (Franklin, America as a Land of Opportunity, 2). Franklin conveys that every individual, wealthy and even the lower class, can be of the same class. A lower working class individual